!!! that's fun!
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
You know whatโs not fun? Dealing with a county planning board to rebuild a shed in my backyard thatโs covered in lead paint and falling down. The shit theyโve put me through
― Heez, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
F'ING SQUEAKY DOOR. I mean i know it's small beer compared to other things in this thread. but ffs. it's also one of those things you only remember you need to do every time you encounter it but forget immediately after.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:30 (two years ago) link
one of the most mind blowing moments i've ever experienced was when i was hanging out with some of my druggie friends in glasgow doing absolutely nothing and one of their friends came over and drew a can of oil from her handbag, exactly like you might see one drawn in a cartoon, with a needle-like spout and a convex bottom that made a little POINK sound if you pushed it, and she went over to this one door that had squeaked outrageously ever since anyone could remember and she just squirted a couple of drops of oil on the hinges and suddenly it was as quiet as an ant pissing on cotton and i thought to myself tearily, 'once, you could kick a ball in the street'
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:36 (two years ago) link
hah, a bit of 70's nostalgia "every home had a little can of 3 in 1 oil in the pantry" (usually next to some unused carcinogenic weed killer from the 50's with a faded label).
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:42 (two years ago) link
Its magic, reminds me i have one to do downstairs actually
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:50 (two years ago) link
a certain member of this board once oiled the door of the upstairs area in the Lexington because it was squeaking during a quiet acoustic sunday afternoon gigs he was co-hosting. fixed it right up.
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 10:01 (two years ago) link
The street door here kept catching and then i used WD40 on it and it closed automatically. So the idiot next door started leaving it on the latch and even bringing the handle around so it looked like it was locked. Never knew whether to think he was actually trying to get one over on me and failing massively or just putting himself out an extra bit because he was a twat or what.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 10:41 (two years ago) link
i have one that has like so much emulsion paint wedged into the hinge that an oiling lasts a few days at most. i can hear it sqeaking right now
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 12:05 (two years ago) link
anyone ever tried re-hanging a door that keeps catching? those chippies make it look so easy. I got it so wrong that it was catching the architrave even worse + rather than correct it I just planed it down to fit, which was what I should have done in the first instance!
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 12:26 (two years ago) link
the father in law is a chippie and he does quite a bit of that and its anything but easy as far as he tells it
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 13:03 (two years ago) link
thats a big job thatll set u back
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
now
I wouldnt do it that way, now
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
turning into The Irish thread!
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
https://c.tenor.com/ICSlOQOsVtQAAAAd/hank-hill-wd40.gif
― pplains, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
doors are so fucking hard, harder than almost any other construction imho
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
wedge shims, try to close, repeat x1000
Doors are something I would not want to do myself because the cost of doing it wrong is so high.
Re: stud finders, I've had good luck with a free metal detector app on my phone, which I had no idea existed but which does a pretty good job finding nails.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
2/3 screws on the bottom hinge of our bathroom door are stripped, so the door is not hanging true and is dragging across the tile. i know how to fix the stripped screws (plug with dowel/matchsticks, etc.) but i haven't done it because i'm scared of getting the door back on the hinges. if the hinges are already there and already in the right place, how hard will it be?
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
both of my exterior door frames are trapezoids
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
xp
It's not bad if it is a light, interior door.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
yeah getting doors back on hinges is OK, it's building new doors that's hard
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
thanks. sounds good but if i'm shitting with the door open next week i'm going to blame this message board.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
hwat
― injurious emissions (cat), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
there is a gap above the door because the top of the frame is not quite horizontal
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
that is much less bonkers than i hoped it would be
― injurious emissions (cat), Thursday, 11 November 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
I'm now almost into a week with a knackered boiler but i've remembered and relearned that a cooker is also central heating!
― calzino, Saturday, 13 November 2021 01:49 (two years ago) link
Is it possible Iโve got 1โ drywall in my ca 1950 Southern California house? Trying to patch holes and the existing drywall seems extremely thick. I thought 1/2 or 5/8โ was standard? Could it be two 1/2โ sheets? This is ceiling and interior wall.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link
Never heard of 1" drywall, but with older houses, anything goes. Our house is from 1928 and when we gutted our bathroom years ago, you could see the label on the back of the adjoining walls and it had a label with the year 1928. Our contractor could not believe there was drywall that old.
― hocus pocus, alakazam (PBKR), Sunday, 14 November 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
I think it would be unusual for two sheets to be used back to back and that would be easy to figure out.
― hocus pocus, alakazam (PBKR), Sunday, 14 November 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
i was getting a roof resealed today but now the roofer guys say the wood underneath is soft and they have to entirely redo the roof :(
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 November 2021 10:12 (two years ago) link
Oh no. Get a second opinion! We have two quotes for some roof repairs, one over 1700, one less than 600. It's a small flat section in front of a recessed dormer window, the second guy says it should be done with scaffolding but he can do it without... might have to get a third quote.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Monday, 15 November 2021 10:19 (two years ago) link
yeah we will. iโm almost more skeptical of low estimates than high. in any case i feel very much like i have zero leverage or knowledge to evaluate whatโs been proposed
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 November 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
i fixed the cold tap and my bf's laptop
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
that little red/blue pvc tab on top of the tap can be a bugger to remove!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
oh it was FAR more dramatic than that
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
you got the adjustable spanner of mass destruction out?
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
no
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
but i did try to change the cartridge without turning off the water at the mains (i did it with the other one on the other side but the pressure was much lower) as i thought the mains were under the bath and would require cutting a siliconed in panel out and i was hoping to avoid it.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
lol nothing worse than water spurting everywhere combined with panic. It might have the potential to kill you 18 times, but at least electric current stays in the copper wire and behaves itself. Water spurting everywhere is just chaos!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
and siliconed bath panels are bastards. Anything mechanical under a bath should be accessible via a panel that can be screwed on/off ffs
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
oh its just ridiculous!
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
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Yikes, wet and wild.
We had to have a cartridge replaced in our shower (which is a bitch because of how the screws on the shower body have to be screwed in). The plumber recently did it wrong and it failed several days later when my wife turned the shower on. Luckily she hadn't stepped in yet, because it blew the entire handle and cartridge off the body and a firehose of scalding hot water shot everywhere. I had to fly down to the basement to shut off the main.
― ma dmac's fury road (PBKR), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 23:50 (two years ago) link
Lol dname
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
you know how people justify the high cost of Dualit toasters by telling you that they're easily repairable? well, the timer broke on our 20 y/o one the other day; I ordered a new part for ยฃ11, watched a video on youtube, and did the whole job in five miinutes.
― fetter, Thursday, 9 December 2021 11:10 (two years ago) link
i have a dualit and my heart rose in my throat after your first sentence.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 December 2021 11:14 (two years ago) link
Ya i dont even have one but was very shook by that intro
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 December 2021 11:20 (two years ago) link
oh i hate my dualit toaster, literally the worst toaster i've ever had
― plax (ico), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
I'm always planning on getting something else but i only do toast on the grill bc of it